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Air France pilots ‘didn’t understand’ their situation

The pilots of a doomed Air France Airbus A330 “were in a situation they didn’t understand,” a French investigator said in releasing new findings Friday.

Air France Flight 447 crashed in the Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people aboard. The new findings are based on information from recently recovered flight recorders.

Investigators said pilots did not realize the plane was in a stall, were insufficiently trained in flying manually, and did not have information about the airplane’s angle relative to airflow as it plunged toward the sea.

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